From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429172739.GB4002@ACM> <20200430115108.GA4287@ACM> <20200430123855.GA1444@tuxteam.de> <20200430185819.GC16852@tuxteam.de> <20200430205440.GB4287@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="123869"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 04:28:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtF-000W72-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 04:28:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46878 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtE-0000bJ-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsa-0007Er-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44027) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsZ-0006eq-Ep; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsY-0006mM-H2; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from chad on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:46:02 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248371 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > application of additional words for concepts that don't seem to be core > enough to be irregular (that is, that aren't so common that everyone has > already internalized the irregular forms), as evidinced by the popularity > _amoung new speakers_ of libraries that add such regularity, even where > irregular forms already exist (dash.el, seq.el, s.el, map.ap, f.el, etc.). > Specific examples were brought up not as proposals to change code, but as > an explanitory aid in response to a direct request for such. I think that is a valid way to understand the issue. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)